Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter reports on all areas of condensed matter physics including soft matter and nanostructures. This journal publishes papers (experimental, theoretical and simulation studies) that contain fundamental condensed matter science.

The editor-in-chief is David K Ferry at Arizona State University, USA.

The journal had an Impact factor of 2.038 for 2006 according to Journal Citation Reports. It is indexed in INSPEC Information Services, Chemical Abstracts, ISI (Science Citation Index, SciSearch, ISI Alerting Services, Chemistry Citation Index, Materials Science Citation Index, Current Contents/Physical, Chemical and Earth Sciences), Engineering Index/Ei Compendex, Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (Engineered Materials Abstracts, Metals Abstracts, Aluminium Industry Abstracts), PASCAL Database, and Article@INIST.

It is a subscription journal, but all papers are freely accessible for the first 30 days after publication at the journal web site.

See also

* Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering

Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter

Abbreviated title JPCM

Discipline Condensed Matter

Language English

Edited by David K Ferry

Publication details

Publisher IOP Publishing (UK)

Publication history 1989-present Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter

This journal was formed by a merger of Journal of Physics C: Solid State Physics (1968-1988) and Journal of Physics F: Metal Physics (1971-1988)

Frequency 50

Open access All papers are freely accessible for the first 30 days after publication

Impact factor 2.038 (2006)

Indexing

ISSN 0953-8984 (print)

1361-648X (web)

Links

* Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter website

* IOP Publishing Electronic Journals

* Institute of Physics